Kareem Rizk

MEDIUM: Mixed media
CITY: Copenhagen, Denmark

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Kareem Rizk is an Australian collage and mixed media artist, living and working in Copenhagen, Denmark. Informed by his background in graphic design and his interest in repurposing vintage printed ephemera, Kareem’s work explores a unique and characteristic fusion of fine art and graphic design. Using paper collage, acrylic paint, oil pastels, pencils, markers, tape and various image transfer techniques, Kareem has developed a diverse body of work that explores figurative, representational and abstract subject matter.
Kareem’s highly textured and multi-layered works have featured in solo and group shows in Australia, USA, Canada, UK, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland, Italy and Spain.

All artworks are originals, signed by the artist and come with a signed certificate of authenticity. Delivery in perfect condition, directly from the artist’s studio.

IN MY OWN WORDS
“As I explore the printed remnants of the promises, hopes and dreams that post-war culture and advertising have carried with the passage of time, I reach for weathered elements and found imagery that resonate with me on a visual or emotional level.
My aim is to construct tactile representations of transitory feelings or visions that emerge as I sift through a vast array of age worn coll ...

MEDIUM: Mixed media
CITY: Copenhagen, Denmark

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Kareem Rizk is an Australian collage and mixed media artist, living and working in Copenhagen, Denmark. Informed by his background in graphic design and his interest in repurposing vintage printed ephemera, Kareem’s work explores a unique and characteristic fusion of fine art and graphic design. Using paper collage, acrylic paint, oil pastels, pencils, markers, tape and various image transfer techniques, Kareem has developed a diverse body of work that explores figurative, representational and abstract subject matter.
Kareem’s highly textured and multi-layered works have featured in solo and group shows in Australia, USA, Canada, UK, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland, Italy and Spain.

All artworks are originals, signed by the artist and come with a signed certificate of authenticity. Delivery in perfect condition, directly from the artist’s studio.

IN MY OWN WORDS
“As I explore the printed remnants of the promises, hopes and dreams that post-war culture and advertising have carried with the passage of time, I reach for weathered elements and found imagery that resonate with me on a visual or emotional level.
My aim is to construct tactile representations of transitory feelings or visions that emerge as I sift through a vast array of age worn collage material. I allow my source material to present aesthetic directions in a process of cutting and pasting that is free flowing and immediate, but at the same time visually coherent and deliberate.
I arrange, rearrange, crop, cut, fold, tear, scratch and peel back selected pieces to find interesting connections that reveal a visual dialogue between graphic design and fine art.
After every selected piece of collage is eventually glued down into place through a series of calculated movements, it is the viewer who ultimately completes the work by constructing their own individual stories based on what they observe.”